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One of our customers has graciously allowed us to republish pics of her actual results using our starter kit. She has broccoli, radish mix and buckwheat lettuce in her mix. Her daughter is the photographer and shows a great eye for creating documentation and balanced photos .... Click on the photos to see them in full frame !!! Day 2 & 3 were in the dark and day 4 represents the plants being exposed to their first day of light. Things happen fast when growing these microgreens. We are three days away from harvest, will have another post at that point. It is great seeing actual results from kits in the field and I thought you would appreciate seeing results using our kits.
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As an experiment we ordered some sprouting green peas to see if we could get some larger microgreens for use. The green peas arrived and the results are now ready after exactly 14 days from seed. We planted them in a small 8oz deli container with an overnight soak to awaken the seeds. The results were simply astounding ... Within a week, the root mass below our media had created a large "mat" and pushed our layer of WonderSoil over the top lip of the container. As the peas continued to grow, tendrils emerged that made the upper section into a cohesive forest of peas ... wild and beautiful action for sure!!!
Not only was the growth amazing, the microgreens had the taste of tender green peas. The Wonderful World of Microgreens .... We have developed a new package that allows customers to resell our kits through Farmers Market booths that we brand with your logo and contact information. Sold in packages of 12 Farm-in-a-Box mini "farms", our kits include the trays, growing media, seed, misting sprayer, and detailed instructions. These kits are mix and match with 4 different crops that can be obtained at checkout ... customer picks our his seed selections, you put it into the bag containing all the components and get paid for the complete kit. Our last blog entry shows actual crops grown from the kit. Here is an example of the sign that we brand for you ... 
Retail price is suggested, but we will adjust to what you feel you want to charge. This is the first reseller package that we are offering, there are a couple more in the works but we would like to provide our customers a chance to position into this great market for holiday sales. If you are interested in reselling our kits, please contact us at directly by clicking on this link microgreenfarm.co ...
Kits are available for immediate shipment... We decided last week to grow out some of our faster growing microgreen crops to see what 7 days could produce. We took our buckwheat lettuce and radish blend seeds and started last Tues. The buckwheat lettuce seeds were soaked overnight while the radish blend was simply put in the dark and misted. After the overnight soaking, we put the buckwheat seeds into their tray and placed them with the radish seeds to grow. After 3 days of darkness, both trays were over 1" high so we put them on our window growing rack. Here are the pics of the two trays just before harvesting today. We just harvested both trays and combined them in a recycled salad container from our local costco (chicken caesar is what we have here). This is what the harvest looked like ... 
Just an amazing result from our Mini Farm-in-a-Box kit ...
Information abounds on the internet touting remedies for virtually any condition ailing you. There is a commonality to the effects of live, whole foods and what they can bring by simply adding them to your diet. Beyond that, there exists anecdotal evidence that certain plants contain elements that can actually help your body heal and become healthy. One noticeable standard is the addition of wheatgrass that has been juiced ... it seems the benefits of the chlorophyll that plant has manufactured has a profound influence on your health. We determined that two microgreen crops, sunflower and buckwheat lettuce contain high amounts of chlorophyll and all allow you to eat them directly and the other nutrients they contain without having to juice them like wheatgrass. With that in mind, we found a mix of sunflower and buckwheat and experimented in our growing kits. Here is a photo of the results after 8 days ... 
The results were both spectacular and great tasting. We further found that sunflower microgreens contain a full spectrum of amino acids and vitamin D while also providing an abundance of sun energy through the chlorophyll that compares favorably to wheat grass. Unlike wheat grass that cannot be digested properly by us, sunflower microgreens are in an easily eaten and digested form that is both tasty and nutritious. Buckwheat lettuce is very high in bioactive lechithin and helps eliminate deposits on arterial walls. Buckwheat lettuce is also an excellent source of chlorophyll and contains a good amount of B-vitamins like riboflavin and rutin (brain power). We refer to this mix as the Power Cleanse mix due to the highly active nature of its nutritional impacts.
We have produced a kit that contains everything you need to grow three crops of this wonderful mix as pictured and you can get it now in our etsy store ... click on the link and be taken to the listing and pictures of the contents of the kit. Available for shipment now. We just received our new eco containers that will become the basis of our educational kits. These containers are clear food grade 8oz deli containers. These containers are made with corn based materials and thus use no petroleum to produce and since they are plant based, are also compostable. With materials now complete, we present a kit based on eco containers that uses sustainable coir based media and organic and non GMO seeds. So here is what the kit looks like ...  The kit contains materials to produce three crops of microgreens similar to the crop pictured in the photo. Crops included in our new sampler are broccoli, radish blend and buckwheat lettuce. The grown out sample above is the actual buckwheat lettuce in a little less than 7 days and almost ready to harvest.
The kit will be available for purchase tonight in our etsy store for $12 plus shipping. After watching reaction and realizing that the length of a URL has a lot to do with traffic, we have recalibrated (what GPS voices do when you miss a turn ... LOL) and gone back to our original site but with a revised look. We will stay here and continue our home farming efforts. Here is a photo of radish microgreens in a handmade bowl that provides a spectacular new container to showcase our Farm-in-a-Cup kits that allows you to grow various microgreen crops in your own container, not only is it a decorative highlight, but nutritionally without comparison in what you can feed your family.  We received today our new corn based clear containers. We will be working with these in the next few days and rolling out several new products based on these compostable, corn based food containers. These will establish a reusable and eco friendly line of home farms. Watch for updates ....
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